Hi Terry,
I am one of those came back from the dark side. We used Protel99 for all
our designs, I got an evaluation version of DXP last year and tried to
convert one of our design which failed. Then I decided not to use it.

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After much advertisement from Protel and sending a lot of materials to
encourage us to upgrade, finally I decide to upgrade. That was a
mistake. I converted simple designs to DXP after finalizing them in
99SE, which was not bad. There was problem with split plane, being slow,
crashing.
Then I transferred an incomplete design and tried to finish the PCB. It
was not possible. I just spent two weeks to convert the design and when
I thought everything is fine, It was crashing continuously because of
enormous problems. I could not finish the design.
I transferred back everything to 99SE again and send a complaint Email
to Ian Wilson. Apparently he accepted all problems in the DXP and his
suggestion was just go to DXP2004. They offered a free upgrade to
DXP2004 and we got that, but never used it.
Regards,
Sal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 3:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet?
>
>
> Having just been offered a discount to upgrade from 99SE to 2004 it's
time
> to think about it again. (I knew those special offers would keep
coming).
>
> Is it fit to use yet or should hold out for a couple more service
packs
> and
> the next special offer?
>
>
> Cheers, Terry.
>
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